OBJECT OF THOUGHT ( VINILO 12" )
MATTIN
"... Is it possible to take self-reflexivity to the point of positive feedback while making a commodity out of my intellect? Can this process help me to understand how I am objectified by capitalism? This is a very difficult question, as I am using English which firstly, is not my mother tongue, and secondly is the language more aligned with capitalism. To what extent does the use of English language shape my thoughts and actions? If our general intellect is appropriated by capitalism, can we get it back through a process of improvisation with our thoughts? Can my unconscious be my instrument for improvisation?Can we produce our subjectivity through the language that we are improvising with? ... "
"... During the first week of February 2010, from Monday to Friday, I appropriated the usual working times (9 to 5pm) in order to set up a framework and impose some discipline. I went to Alpha Electro-acoustic Studio, Visby, I recorded my thoughts and then began to cut, edit, distort ... as a way of making a montage of my own subjectivity, as a way to dismantle myself. If noise can contain everything it can also contain my lack of articulation. By using my thought processes as material for improvisation and then process them literally, I tried to explore the limitation of the given situation, understanding that at the same time I am objectitfying my thoughts in the vinyl that you are holding in your hands."
(taken from the "Object of Thought" LP front cover)